Mary Leder's novel, My Life In Stalinist Russia is a very interesting tale of a woman who traveled from the United States into the Soviet Union and then back. Leder is very optimistic when she ventured into the communist country. She does a fantastic job of portraying what life is like for a normal everyday working person in the Soviet Union. Leder's journey consisted of trying to get out of the Soviet Union, but her application for departure kept being denied. Once she finally was able to leave the country, in 1965, her husband and child were already dead. el features some in…
